2Kings:17:5-24
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Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land and came to Sama '
ria ,
and for three years he besieged it .
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In the ninth year of Hoshe '
a the king of Assyria captured Sama '
ria ,
and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria ,
and placed them in Halah ,
and on the Habor ,
the river of Gozan ,
and in the cities of the Medes .
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And this was so ,
because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God ,
who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt ,
and had feared other gods
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and walked in the customs of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel ,
and in the customs which the kings of Israel had introduced .
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And the people of Israel did secretly against the LORD their God things that were not right .
They built for themselves high places at all their towns ,
from watchtower to fortified city ;
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they set up for themselves pillars and Ashe '
rim on every high hill and under every green tree ;
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and there they burned incense on all the high places ,
as the nations did whom the LORD carried away before them .
And they did wicked things ,
provoking the LORD to anger ,
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and they served idols ,
of which the LORD had said to them , "
You shall not do this ."
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Yet the LORD warned Israel and Judah by every prophet and every seer ,
saying , "
Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes ,
in accordance with all the law which I commanded your fathers ,
and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets ."
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But they would not listen ,
but were stubborn ,
as their fathers had been ,
who did not believe in the LORD their God .
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They despised his statutes ,
and his covenant that he made with their fathers ,
and the warnings which he gave them .
They went after false idols ,
and became false ,
and they followed the nations that were round about them ,
concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them .
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And they forsook all the commandments of the LORD their God ,
and made for themselves molten images of two calves ;
and they made an Ashe '
rah ,
and worshiped all the host of heaven ,
and served Ba '
al .
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And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings ,
and used divination and sorcery ,
and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD ,
provoking him to anger .
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Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel ,
and removed them out of his sight ;
none was left but the tribe of Judah only .
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Judah also did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God ,
but walked in the customs which Israel had introduced .
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And the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel ,
and afflicted them ,
and gave them into the hand of spoilers ,
until he had cast them out of his sight .
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When he had torn Israel from the house of David they made Jerobo '
am the son of Nebat king .
And Jerobo '
am drove Israel from following the LORD and made them commit great sin .
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The people of Israel walked in all the sins which Jerobo '
am did ;
they did not depart from them ,
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until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight ,
as he had spoken by all his servants the prophets .
So Israel was exiled from their own land to Assyria until this day .
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And the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon ,
Cuthah ,
Avva ,
Hamath ,
and Sephar-va '
im ,
and placed them in the cities of Sama '
ria instead of the people of Israel ;
and they took possession of Sama '
ria ,
and dwelt in its cities .
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